“Las Culturistas” hosts Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers and “Saturday Evening Reside’s” Ego Nwodim had been among the many winners of the fifth annual Ambies, the kudos handed out by The Podcast Academy to acknowledge audio leisure.

Wondery, Audible, iHeart Media, Audacy, NPR, the CBC, Pineapple Avenue Studios, Larger Floor Productions and Crooked Media led the platforms and manufacturing banners that had been honored throughout 28 classes. The awards had been introduced Monday night at Chicago’s McCormick Conference Heart as a part of the annual Podcast Motion convention.

Podcast of the 12 months honors went to “Hysterical,” the investigative story of a thriller ailment that unfold by means of teenage women in LeRoy, N.Y., a small city about 30 miles east of Rochester. The seven-part sequence hails from Wondery, Audacy’s Pineapple Avenue Studios. “Hysterical” additionally received the laurel for finest reporting for the work of host and producer Dan Taberski. “Las Culturistas” (iHeart/Huge Cash Gamers) starring “SNL” trouper Yang and actor-comedian Rogers, was acknowledged for comedy podcast. Yang’s “SNL” castmate received the class of interview podcast for “Thanks Dad with Ego Nwodim.”

Larger Floor, the banner headed by Barack and Michelle Obama, took the trophy for leisure podcast for “The Marvel of Stevie,” analyzing the work of Stevie Marvel (Audible, Larger Floor, Pineapple Avenue Studios). Wondery and Crooked Media claimed the prize for historical past podcast for “Empire Metropolis: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD,” a deeply researched dive into the unvarnished historical past of the New York Police Division.

NPR’s “How I Constructed This Podcast with Man Raz” (Wondery, Constructed It Productions, NPR) received the nod for enterprise podcast. NPR additionally received within the politics or opinion class for “The NPR Politics Podcast.”

Actor-comedian and podcaster Tig Notaro hosted the Ambies, which additionally bestowed honorary kudos on Ira Glass (Governors Award) and Sam Sanders (Affect Award).

Right here is the total checklist of winners of the fifth annual Ambies:

Podcast of The Yr
Hysterical
Wondery, Audacy’s Pineapple Avenue Studios

Greatest Enterprise Podcast
How I Constructed This Podcast with Man Raz
Wondery, Constructed It Productions and NPR

Greatest Comedy Podcast
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
iHeartPodcasts, Huge Cash Gamers

Greatest DIY Podcast
Deserted: The All-American Ruins Podcast
All-American Ruins

Greatest Documentary Podcast
Examined
Bucket of Eels, CBC Podcasts and NPR’s Embedded

Greatest Leisure Podcast
The Marvel of Stevie
Audible, Larger Floor, and Pineapple Avenue Studios

Greatest Fiction Podcast
Tales of Fists & Fireballs
ADHx2

Greatest Historical past Podcast
Empire Metropolis: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD
Wondery, Crooked Media

Greatest Indie Podcast
What Occurred in Skinner
Mazama Leisure

Greatest Indie Podcast Host or Hosts
Dallas Taylor
for Twenty Thousand Hertz Defacto Sound

Greatest Interview Podcast
Thanks Dad with Ego Nwodim
Headgum

Greatest Information, Science or Tech Podcast
99% Invisible
SiriusXM

Greatest Information Podcast
The Ten Information
Small However Mighty Media, Subsequent Chapter Podcasts

Greatest Unique Rating and Music Supervision
Dan Leone
for Ripple
Western Sound, APM Studios

Greatest Efficiency in Audio Fiction
Caitlin Stasey, Jake ‘The Snake’ Roberts, David Yow, Caroline Morahan, Guinevere Turner, Elizabeth Halpern, Travis Harmon, Brad Griffith, James Bacon, Jameson Cush, Jonathan Shockley, Ayla Glass and Chris Goodwin for The Skies Are Watching
Goldhawk Productions

Greatest Private Development / Spirituality Podcast
10% Happier with Dan Harris
10% Media

Greatest Podcast for Youngsters
Wow within the World
Wondery, Tinkercast

Greatest Podcast Host or Hosts
Ronald Younger Jr.
for Weight For It ohitsBigRon studios LLC

Greatest Politics or Opinion Podcast
The NPR Politics Podcast

Greatest Manufacturing and Sound Design
Michelle Macklem
for Woman v. Horse
ESPN Podcasts, 30 for 30 Podcasts

Greatest Reporting
Dan Taberski
for Hysterical
Wondery, Audacy’s Pineapple Avenue Studios

Greatest Scriptwriting, Fiction
Anderson Cook dinner and Sidney Butler for Academy
AT WILL MEDIA, Wondery

Greatest Scriptwriting, Non-Fiction
Ashley Cleek, Al Letson, Brett Myers for Reveal
Reveal, PRX

Greatest Society and Tradition Podcast
Inheriting
LAist Studios

Greatest Spanish Language Narrative Podcast – Fiction or Nonfiction
HUMO: Homicide and Silence in El Salvador
Sonoro

Greatest Sports activities Podcast
Broomgate: A Curling Scandal
Kelly&Kelly, CBC Podcasts, USG Audio, and Pacific Electrical

Greatest True Crime Podcast
Past All Restore
WBUR, ZSP Media

Greatest Wellness or Relationships Podcast
Remedy for Black Ladies
iHeartPodcasts

(Pictured: Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, hosts of “Las Culturistas”)

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